It looks like we jumped the gun when we called Week 7 “Upset Saturday”! There were eight — eight! — upsets in the AP Top 25 in Week 8:
- The #8 Louisville Cardinals lost 35-38 at home to unranked UCF on Friday night.
- The #15 Georgia Bulldogs went on the road and lost 27-31 to the unranked Vanderbilt Commodores.
- The #11 South Carolina Gamecocks traveled to Neyland Stadium and lost 21-23 to the unranked Tennessee Volunteers.
- The #24 Auburn Tigers visited College Station and shocked the #7 Texas A & M Aggies, beating them 45-41.
- The #9 UCLA Bruins fell 10-24 to the #13 Stanford Cardinal in a game that was much closer than the final score.
- The #20 Washington Huskies got manhandled on their visit to the unranked Arizona State Sun Devils 53-24.
- The #6 LSU Tigers went to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and lost to the unranked Ole Miss Rebels 27-24.
- The #3 Clemson Tigers got destroyed in a 51-14 epic smackdown by the #5 Florida State University Seminoles.